The invention relates to a device and a method for supplying and processing packages arranged on carrier elements, especially drinks packages, using a continuous conveyor belt on which the carrier elements are arranged. The aim of the invention is to be able to further process carrier elements which are continuously supplied by means of a conveyor belt in a processing station in a reliable manner with few technical resources. To this end, two advancing rollers are provided to the right and to th...

System for delivering air-filled packing cushions to a point of use in which a continuous string of the cushions is fed into an elongated duct with the string extending longitudinally of the duct, and an air flow is established in the duct to convey the string of cushions through the duct. In one disclosed embodiment, the air flow is created by a blower mounted externally of the duct, with a baffle plate inside the duct directing the air flow in a longitudinal direction. In a self-contained syst...

An apparatus for inserting packaged material into packaging means is described. In the region of an insertion device and a preinsertion device, a packaged-material conveyor device and a packaging-means conveyor device are provided. The insertion device has at least one insertion tappet, and the preinsertion device has a covering tongue corresponding to the insertion tappet. The insertion tappets and covering tongue can be guided essentially transversely to a direction of motion of the conveyor d...

An apparatus for filling tablets into blister packages, including a lower assembly which provides a vibrating guide for directing elongate thermoplastic strips longitudinally through the apparatus. A movable carriage reciprocates above the lower assembly and carries a plurality of brushes in rotary contact with the top surface of the thermoplastic strips of material. A portion of said brushes are transversely disposed with respect to the elongate thermoplastic strips and are rotatively journalle...

A system for stacking into containers flat articles received in a shingled stream, the flat articles being disposed essentially normal to the bottoms of the containers into which they are stacked; mechanism is provided for rapidly diverting the shingled stream of flat articles from the rear of a just filled container to the front of the next empty container in a line of moving containers to feed flat articles into successive containers without interruption; containers having elongated slots in t...

In a continuous cycle the apparatus denests stacked plant pots and plant flats and fills the flats with the pots. Two piston mounted vacuum grippers employing arrays of suction cups are mounted to a frame. The flat gripper moves vertically to destack an array of plant flats or trays, and the pot gripper moves vertically to destack an array of plant pots. Both grippers are moveable between a retracted position, an unloading position, and a multiplicity of loading positions. A carriage is reciproc...

The present invention is apparatus for automatically unloading integrated circuit devices passing from a test site or test sites of an integrated circuit handler down one or more chutes (64). The apparatus includes a stacker assembly (26) comprising one or more hoppers (34). Further, an accumulator assembly (28) providing a plurality of accumulating apertures (62) formed between various loom elements (58, 60) is provided. A shuttle (50) receives an integrated circuit storage and transfer tube (4...

A method and apparatus are disclosed for transferring discrete articles between two paths, in particular for casing or uncasing of articles such as bottles. The articles are advanced in groups in a first path, either in a case or without a case, and when they reach a transfer station all articles of a respective group are engaged and raised and at the same time moved laterally for deposition in another path. If the articles are originally in a case they are removed and deposited in the other pat...

Packing apparatus for packing layers of cylindrical articles in a container. The apparatus includes means for accumulating a layer of alternately staggered lines of cylindrical articles arranged end-to-end at a pickup position. The apparatus also includes means for making vacuum contact with each article and transferring the entire layer to the container where it is released and forms a tightly packed flat layer. The packing apparatus also includes means for folding back the top flaps of each em...

A semi-automated packaging apparatus allows for an operator to fill a presented container without contaminating the container rim. The presentation of an empty container and subsequent removal of a filled container are performed automatically under control of the operator. The apparatus comprises a plurality of separate, removable modules including: a de-nester module for separating the containers from a stack; a container-presenting module for moving the currently de-nested container into posit...